Roman Polanski, 1st N.Y. Film Festival, 1963 © Jerry Schatzberg, who tells the story behind the shot to Eugene Hernandez at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
More on the photo, Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, and Polanski’s new short here.
Just experimenting with tumblr’s newish audio features here, is all. “Powered by” Spotify and Soundcloud; let’s see how that actually looks… Ok, minimal. Then I’ll tell you myself that this is “Snowfall” from Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd’s soundtrack for Mysterious Skin, a tune chosen practically at random.
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@RobertACaro: “To be clear: This account will almost certainly never be put to use. It has been reserved, however, ‘just in case.’”
“The obscenity isn’t in the astronomical sums art has been fetching, it’s in the circumstances that make those prices possible.” Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times: “Two years ago a team of economists at Yale School of Management and Tilburg University in the Netherlands crunched the art market numbers and came to some sobering conclusions. Using mostly British art-market data compiled since 1765, William Goetzmann, Luc Renneboog and Christophe Spaenjers found a variety of factors were involved in today’s stratospheric art prices. They include things like the new globalization of the buying pool. More wealthy buyers equals more competitive bidding.
“However, for the period between 1908 and 2005, one factor edged out all others: Art prices rise — and rise faster — when income inequality goes up.
“Occupy Wall Street gave visibility to today’s stark income inequality, which is the real freak show. Since Ronald Reagan took office, the average 1-percenter has nearly tripled his share, growing from 12 1/2 times the median household income to a staggering 36 times greater. The Senate Budget Committee was told in February that CEO-to-worker pay rose from 42-to-1 in 1980 to 325-to-1 in 2010. The national income held by the top 1% is at roughly the level it was in 1928, just before the Roaring Twenties erupted in the fireball of the Great Depression.
“Art prices have followed.”
